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01 Record

CVE-2020-27221

In Eclipse OpenJ9 up to and including version 0.23, there is potential for a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: eclipse
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

02 Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9 up to and including version 0.23, there is potential for a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.55% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 74.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Critical. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2021-01-21 04:55Z5 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-04 16:11Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2020-10-19
Assigning CNA
eclipse
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
  • CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant
  • CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
  • CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
Data version
5.1
Document digest
28a787e84b9b2b7dc11775880a0e52f30a5d89c27cc0af3712db01bba3daa8ae

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
The Eclipse FoundationEclipse OpenJ9<= 0.23—

06 References